We are excited to announce that we have published the third annual Global Open Data Index. This year’s Index showed impressive gains from non-OECD countries with Taiwan topping the Index and Colombia and Uruguay breaking into the top ten at four and seven respectively. Overall, the Index evaluated 122 places and 1586 datasets and determined that only 9%, or 156 datasets, were both technically and legally open.

The Index ranks countries based on the availability and accessibility of data in thirteen key categories, including government spending, election results, procurement, and pollution levels. Over the summer, we held a public consultation, which saw contributions from individuals within the open data community as well as from key civil society organisations across an array of sectors. As a result of this consultation, we expanded the 2015 Index to include public procurement data, water quality data, land ownership data and weather data; we also decided to removed transport timetables due to the difficulties faced when comparing transport system data globally.

Open Knowledge International began to systematically track the release of open data by national governments in 2013 with the objective of measuring if governments were releasing the key datasets of high social and democratic value as open data. That enables us to better understand the current state of play and in turn work with civil society actors to address the gaps in data release. Over the course of the last three years, the Global Open Data Index has become more than just a benchmark – we noticed that governments began to use the Index as a reference to inform their open data priorities and civil society actors began to use the Index advocacy tool to encourage governments to improve their performance in releasing key datasets.

Furthermore, indices such as the Global Open Data Index are not without their challenges. The Index measures the technical and legal openness of datasets deemed to be of critical democratic and social value – it does not measure the openness of a given government. It should be clear that the release of a few key datasets is not a sufficient measure of the openness of a government. The blurring of lines between open data and open government is nothing new and has been hotly debated by civil society groups and transparency organisations since the sharp rise in popularity of open data policies over the last decade.

While the goal of the Index has never been to measure the openness of governments, we have been working in collaborations with others to make the index more than just a benchmark of data release. This year, by collaborating with topical experts across an array of sectors, we were able to improve our dataset category definitions to ensure that we are measuring data that civil society groups require rather than simply the data that governments happen to be collecting.

Next year we will be doubling down on this effort to work in collaboration with topical experts to go beyond a “baseline” of reference datasets which are widely held to be important, to tracking the release of datasets deemed critical by the civil society groups working in a given field. This effort is both experimental and ambitious. Measuring open data is not trivial and we are keenly aware of the balance that needs to be struck between international comparability and local context and we will continue to work to get this balance right. Join us on the Index forum to join these future discussions.

رابط دليل جداول البيانات هنا

تطبيق عداد الكلمات لعمل إحصائيات لإستخدام المفردات المختلفة في نص ما

تحليل النصوص هو أمر مفيد للصحفيين وصحفيي البيانات بشكل خاص، حيث يتيح لهم فهم خطابات السياسيين على سبيل المثال وعرض الكلمات المفتاحية التي يركز عليها السياسي في خطابه أو مقارنة خطاب سياسي بأخر ومعرفة مدى إهتمام كل منهم بأمور معينة مقارنة بزميله .. يمكن أيضا إستخدام تحليل النصوص لمعرفة زيادة وتغير الإهتمام بمواضيع معينة عبر الزمن عن طريق تحليل الأخبار المنشورة عبر فترة زمنية معينة

]]> http://eg.okfn.org/2015/03/%d8%b9%d8%af%d9%91%d8%a7%d8%af-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%83%d9%84%d9%85%d8%a7%d8%aa-%d8%a3%d8%af%d8%a7%d8%a9-%d8%ac%d8%af%d9%8a%d8%af%d8%a9-%d9%84%d8%aa%d8%ad%d9%84%d9%8a%d9%84-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%86%d8%b5%d9%88/feed/ 0 201 http://eg.okfn.org/2015/02/odd2015/ http://eg.okfn.org/2015/02/odd2015/#respond Tue, 17 Feb 2015 11:46:06 +0000 http://eg.okfn.org/?p=199 نود أن ندعوك للمشاركة في يوم البيانات المفتوحة يوم السبت الحادي والعشرين من فبراير هذا العام

اليوم العالمي للبيانات المفتوحة

يوم البيانات المفتوحة هو إجتماع للمواطنين في مدنهم حول العالم، لكتابة تطبيقات وتحرير البيانات وخلق رسوم بيانية ونشر مقالات وأراء حول إستخدام البيانات العامة المفتوحة لدعم وتشجيع تبني سياسات حكومية تدعو لمزيد من الشفافية من قبل الحكومات المحلية والإقليمية والوطنية

لك مطلق الحرية في إختيار الموضوعات التي تود تغطيتها أنت أو مؤسستك، فقد تفضل صنع تطبيقات تتيح البيانات للعامة، أو عمل رسوم بيانية أو تنظيم لقائات للتعريف بالبيانات المفتوحة، طالما كان ذلك في إطار فكرة اليوم

ونحن سنكون سعداء بمعاونتك إن كانت لديك إستفسارات وبنشر حصيلة إنتاجكم بعد إنتهاء اليوم

من ملتقى مدرسة البيانات في برلين

مدرسة البيانات هي جزء من مؤسسة المعرفة المفتوحة وتهدف إلى نشر وتعليم أساسيات صحافة البيانات ووسائل تحليل الأرقام وعمل رسوم بيانية، وكل عام يتم قبول وافدين جدد ليكونا جزء من أنشطة المدرسة سواء بالمشاركة في الحصص التعليمية على الإنترنت أو بالمشاركة في الورش والفعاليات من أجل التعليم والتعلم على حد سواء .. باب القبول في المدرسة قد فتح الآن حتى العاشر من مارس، وبالتالي أدعو كل المهتمين بصحافة البيانات وتنميتها في بالدانهم بالتقدم لهذه الدورة والمشاركة في نشر فكرة المعرفة والبيانات المفتوحة في محيطهم

يمكنكم تتبع هذا الرابط للتقديم ولمعرفة المزيد بإمكانكم المشاركة في الهانج أوت المذكور هناك

الكتاب تأليف سيمون اليبراندي، وقامت بترجمته هبه فريد، وهو متاح على موقع كتب عربية حرة لمن بريد تنزيله مجانا

توفر جيت هب بالتعاون مع بعض شركائها مجموعة من الأدوات الخاصة بتطوير البرمجيات وإستضافة المواقع بشكل مجاني للطلبة، في محاولة لتشجيع الطلاب في الإنخراط في تطوير المواقع والبرمجيات.

يمكنكم معرفة المزيد عن حقيبة الطالب المطور هنا

يمكنكم الإشتراك في الفعالية هنا

AlJazeera Hackathon (Canvas)

تنظم الجزيرة في قطر هاكاثون بنهاية شهر نوفمبر بهدف خلق تطبيقات تساهم في تطوير الإعلام. وبحسب موقع الهاكاثون، فسيتم الإعلان لاحقا عن المشاكل المطروح حلها من قبل المشاركين، إلا أنهم عرضوا نموذج لبعض المشاكل المقترح حلها، مثل عمل منصة بإستخلاص الأخبار المهمة من المناقشات التي تدور بين الناس، وهناك أيضا فكرة تحليل الأخبار التي تنشرها وتبثها الجزيرة بشكل إحصائي لمعرفة الأراء الممثلة أكثر من غيرها والأقليات التي يتم تجاهلها، بالإضافة لأفكار أخرى خاصة بتمثيل الأخبار عن طريق الرسوم البيانية والإنفوجرافيك

باب التقديم مفتوح للمطورين والمصممين والصحفيين حتى منتصف أكتوبر ويمكن للمهتمين التقدم عن طريق هذا الرابط، وبحسب الموقع، فإن تكاليف السفر والإقامة مغطاة و مجموع الجوائز المقدمة قيمتها خمسين ألف دولار أمريكي

Poplus is an open federation of people and organisations from many different countries. They realised that there is a lot of redundancy in the efforts made to create softwares needed for civic engagement and transparency. Civic websites often need the same basic functionalities, no matter what kind of legislature or form of government they operate within. Thus, they created numerous components which any organization can use as a service, or download and install on their own. Organizations can mix and match between the existing components or even submit their own components. The current existing components are:

• PopIt: Enables organizations to create and maintain lists of politicians.For example, it is currently used in South Africa to share the names and the biographies of the members of the people’s assembly there. It is also used to list Kenyan Politicians.
• SayIt: Tool for publishing speeches, discussions and dialogues, simply and clearly, online. It is already used in different scenarios, from managing the transcripts of the debates taking place in the People’s Assembly in South Africa to making Shakespeare’s plays searchable and browsable.
• BillIt: Record, search and track bills as they change.
• MapIt: It is used to map geographic points to administrative boundaries. There are already usecases for MapIP in UK, Australia and Norway.

WriteIt: Messaging system for sending and archiving messages to public figures and private organizations.

In fact, anyone can apply to have a piece of software certified as an official Poplus Component. So, in addition to the above components, there are other components that are still in earlier stage of developments.

• CheckIt: Applications to keep track of promises made by politicians.
• CompareIt: Compares changes made to bills. Currently is it still a client-site tool only and they are looking for guidelines to turn it into a component.
• TrackIt: A proposed component to track political events.

Poplus was founded by mySociet and Ciudadano Inteligente.

التطبيق يرجع النتائج في صورة جيسون ويحتوى على ثلاث حلات: خطر وتحذير وآمن. يمكنك إيجاد واجهة المبرمج هنا وقرأة المزيد عن تطبيق مصعب هنا، التطبيق أيضا مفتوح المصدر ويمكنك رؤية وتعديل الكود الخاص به من هنا

كريم قشوع أيضا قام بعمل تطبيق، لحل نفس المشكلة

يمكن مثلا عمل تطبيق يحذر الناس عندما يرتفع الحمل عن طريق رسالة نصية، أو يمكن لأحدهم أن يبرمج الأجهزة المنزلية الغير ضرورية أن تنطفيء بمجرد إرتفاع الحمل على الشبكة، أو مثلا يقوم باحث بمحاولة إيجاد ألية للتنبؤ بإنقطاع التيار في المناطق المختلفة بإستخدام تلك المعلومة بالإضافة لمعلومات أخرى مثل درجة الحرارة ومواعيد قطع التيار في المنطقة

لكن المشكلة أن التطبيق الخاص بجهاز تنظيم مرفق الكهرباء لا يوفر البيانات بصيغة يفهمها الحاسب، كمثال أن تكون في صورة ملف جيسون أو أر إس إس توفره واجهة إستخدام المبرمج، ومن ثم، أطرح عليكم المشكلة وإن كان بإمكان أحدكم عمل كاشط – سكرابر – لإستخراج البيانات من التطبيق وتوفيرها في صورة مناسبة للحاسب

عنوان التطبيق هنا

The Fellowship is a chance for people who love to solve problems through code to spend 10 months working with an news organizations such as The Guardian, New York Times or Washington Post doing work that matters and people will see. Fellows also get to travel the world to teach, learn, and speak with other people interested in journalism, code, data, design, and more.

No particular programming language or development background is required
to apply, just experience with code and an interest in journalism. Does
that sound like you? If so, apply here.

قاعدة بيانات كرة القدم المفتوحة

كرة القدم هي أكثر الرياضات إنتشارا في العالم، وفعاليات كأس العالم لكرة القدم في البرازيل على الأبواب، حيث سيتنافس ٣٢ فريقا من ست قارات عبر ٦٤ مباراة في ١٢ مدينة برازيلية. طبعا، هذه فرصة عظيمة لهواة الرياضة وصحافة البيانات للمزج بين الإثنين وتقديم خدمة جذابة للقراء، ومن هنا كانت فكرة قاعدة بيانات كرة القدم، وهو مشروع يهدف إلي توفير البيانات الخاصة بكرة القدم وبطولاتها بشكل تقني سلهل للمطورين وصحافي البيانات. يمكنكم قرأة نبذة عن المشروع هنا

If you believe that you can benefit your community and want to become a School of Data fellow, the Fellowship program is now open for you to apply.

Apply for the fellowship here, here you can find the fellowship FAQ, and example profiles of the current fellows.

Via Heather Leson.

“Open access publications are easy to access and theoretically accessible to anyone with an Internet connection”, Mark Muehlhaeusler

On the event’s homepage, the term Open Access is highlighted as it refers to “literature and research that is digital, online, free of charge and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions”. Nevertheless, Meggan Houlihan and Mark Muehlhaeusler felt the need to start by explaining the term in more details in the first session of the event.

In the next session, Nicholas Cop from SciELO (Scientific Electronic Library Online), gave an introduction their bibliographic database of open access journals. SciELO initially started in Brazil, 15 years ago, yet it now have presence in 12 countries most of them are in Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula. Mr. Cop also shed the light about the status of Open Access in that region by showing some statistics. For example, in Chile, 88% of the journals are Open Access ones. Similarly, in Brazil, 63% of the articles there are OA. On SciELO’s blog there is also a study about academic journal publication models in Brazil and Spain. SciELO is meant to make it easier for anyone to search in all the member OA journals from one place. They also noticed that the language barrier for researches done in Spanish or Portuguese are limiting the access to the papers published in the OA journals there, thus they translate the papers’ abstracts. Mr. Cop also spoke about a new project they are working on to promote OA books and to allow ways for easier citations between papers and e-books.

Later on, Iryna Kuchma of Electronic Information for Libraries (EIFL), spoke about 4 more projects and case studies. She started with EIFL, a not-for-profit organisation that works with libraries to enable access to digital information in developing and transition countries. Their Open Access program focuses on building capacity to launch open access repositories and to ensure their long-term sustainability, and empowering librarians and library professionals, scholars, educators and students to become open access advocates. She then introduced three other projects, OASPA, COAR and NDLTD.

The next session was a panel discussion that focused on the state of Open Access in the Arab world. The panel was moderated by Nadine Weheba and Ramy Aziz, and there were 5 panelists, Seif Abou Zeid from Tahrir Academy, Hala Essalmawi from Creative Commons Egypt, Ahmed Hussein from Open Egypt, Mandy Taha, an open access consultant, and yours truly from Open Knowledge Egypt. Seif spoke about their aim in Tahrir Academy to make university courses as well as other educational and skill sharing videos available to everyone for free. He emphasised on the importance of adopting an open license, such as Creative Commons, as opposed to many of the existing MOOC websites. Hala Essalmawi then moved to the legal aspects of OA, and how they worked in Creative Commons Egypt, not only to translate the license, but also to adapt it to the Egyptian laws. She also highlighted the positive and negative aspects of the Egyptian IP laws, and their relations to the OA goals. Since Open Egypt advocate for the use of Free and Open Source Software in Egypt, Ahmed Hussein went on to make analogies between Open Access and Open Source, how the culture of sharing and openness has helped the latter to develop in the recent years. He then called for building directories for OA journals in the region. Then, during my talk, I prefered to draw a picture about the status of OA in the region through some numbers. Then I highlighted the importance of OA, not only to make the access to research results costless, but also to make it more accessible. I used the language barrier as an example to show how the lack of free license may prevent people from translating existing researches published in foreign languages. I then had my share of analogies, by comparing OA to Open Data, and how openness here doesn’t stop at the legal aspects, but it also has to provide technical openness so that not only humans can read the published researches, but also machines for data analyses and search engines. There were discussions among the panelists and with the audience about the concepts discussed, and the case studies shown from the region. One of the discussions was taken home by Maha Bali after the session, where she continued the discussion on her blog.

Right before the final session of the day, Ramy Aziz of PLoS, showed how he encourages his students in Cairo University to blog about what they study. He also highlighted how Open Access and scientific blogging can fight pseudoscience and help researchers follow new studies in their fields. Then in the final session of the day, Ryder Kouba presented the AUC’s Digital Archive and Research (DAR).

I wasn’t able to attend the second day, but from the feedback on twitter, it was clear that the panel about copyright was interesting. Later in the day, Maha Bali had a session about Open Education Resources, and the session was followed by a workshop by Mark Muehlhaeusler on Open Journal System (OJS).

Bibliotheca Alexandrina and Creative Commons Egypt there are going to organize a Creative Commons event in the Library in Alexandria (BACC lecture hall) on Monday, the 5th of May. Prof. Michel Carol will join the event through a video conference from Washington DC, as he will talk about the birth of CC and how it took its way to the whole world. Dr. Melanie Dulong de Rosnay will talk about the adoption of CC in France, from legal and cultural aspects. Then Hala Essalmawi, among two others, will talk about CC in Egypt and the Arab world.